 You know that you and I we have powers oof that's good till you look at your neighbor look at them good So you got power? Tell the other neighbors say I got the power Everybody know that song got the power yeah In in the Bible talks about that there's something that we have We have the power inside of us and the devil is after your power He wants to strip you of that power He wants to use the same power against you so you will destroy Yourself the topic my message tonight is your mind is your power Somebody say after me say my mind is my power Tell your neighbor say your mind is your power I'm gonna read a scripture in Matthew 6 25 And I'm gonna read only if it's on the screen is gonna be only one or two Scriptures about I'm gonna read a little bit more. It says this I tell you this do not worry somebody say do not worry About your life. Do not worry about what you're going to eat and drink Do not worry about what you're going to wear is not life more than food It's not body more than clothes look at the birds of the sky. They do not plant seeds They do not gather grain they do not put grain into a building to keep your father in heaven feeds them Are you not more important than the birds? Which of you can take himself a little taller by worrying this is this is really really good Why should you worry about clothes think how the flowers grow? They do not work or make clothes But I tell you that Solomon and all his greatness was not Dressed as well as one of these flowers got close the grass in the field It lives today and it's burnt in the stuff tomorrow How much more will he give you clothes you have so little faith? Do not worry. Do not keep saying what will we eat or what we will drink or what will we wear? The people who do not know God are looking for all these things your father in heaven knows all You need all these things by seek first the kingdom and his righteousness and all these things will be given To you as well and again it says in verse 34 Therefore do not worry about tomorrow for tomorrow worry about itself each day has enough trouble of its own This scripture has so much to say about do not worry do not worry and Jesus is saying these words So if you know if Jesus is saying something once it's important, right? He said it twice It's like all right. He's trying to make a Satan. He says three times four times five times He says do not worry, so he's trying to trying to give you a kind of like hey do not worry and and I want to take the scripture because Worrying what worrying does it cripples your mind? Do you think to act and exercise faith in the present? Worry just begins to take your ability your creativity your power that God has given you and it begins to break it down How many of us we kind of we worry about things that never happen? Come on somebody, you know, you're like, oh, what if this happens? What if this happens? What if this and we imagine a future that never comes to pass Yet it cripples our today and ability to be able to act as As a son to be able to act as a husband to be able to act as a wife as a daughter as a mother Begins to cripple our today because I worry about tomorrow If you guys see people who are always like stress and worried and then you look at them and you're like that is not a human being What if this would have died and they're like walking around and they're like, oh, what if this can happen? You look at them. You're like it's like this person is in his own cage and it's all done by worrying Like many times like oh, what if I'm driving someone's gonna hit me What if you know go to school and fail the test and test never comes you're like, you know And you're freaking out the whole night and you know something you know does it does happen? You begin to imagine a future that never happens Satan is after your mind So the first point I want you to write down is Satan is after your power. He's after your mind. That is it So stable does not want your money. I want to tell you this the devil does not want your car You yourself sometimes don't want your car. You're like somebody please take my car because it breaks down all the time Satan does not want your job. You yourself does not want to wake up Why does Satan wants to wake up in the morning go to your job you yourself hate it Satan does not want your kids sometimes you don't even want your kids You know, so so we're like we're like oh Satan is after my stuff No, Satan is after your mind because he knows if he gets your mind Even though God will give you a blessing. You'll see the blessing as a curse Satan knows if if if he can get your mind the body that you got you just put an extra pound and then you're like Oh, God, why am I fat? Why am I so ugly things like that? Others are wishing to have the health that you have yet you gain an extra pound and you hate your body You got the little pimple on your forehead and you're like, I don't want to go outside I can't see the people they're gonna think I'm ugly and it's like God gave you a perfectly healthy body and you yourself are Hating it. Why because Satan took your mind and he crippled it We have to understand that our power is our mind Somebody say my power is my mind We have to understand so God when in creation God has given the creatures Different powers he comes to the line He gives lying the roar and his mouth and his teeth and that's his power That's like if you see a line and he's roaring and some people say that his roar will paralyze you Imagine if that line doesn't have any teeth or cannot roar you see him as a nice cat And you actually will have him in your house, right? Imagine if in the alligator with all the jaw strength and this teeth that he has Remember, what if he never had that power? You just see him as a nice little pet, right? What if the elephant the all the weights and and the thing that he has in his what if he didn't have that? He will lose his defense. He will lose his power Same thing with the cheetah cheetah was created and his defense his power with speed Same thing has an eagle eagles power is his wings when eagle gets into the storm His power is the wings. He just flaps his wings and he just gets out of the storm We as humans we as a man and as woman God has given us the power in our mind So if Satan can take your mind he can take your power We're like, oh, you know Satan wants to steal my money. No, he does not steal your money He needs to just tell you that tomorrow you might get fired or tomorrow You're not gonna have enough and the money that you have you'll hate it Satan can just give you and worry about tomorrow Yet, you won't be able to enjoy the blessings that you have today Satan can't he Satan can't take it from you He'll make you worry about it that you even having that blessing will hate it You will be laying in a comfortable bed of yours such a you know Oh, man those sheets and you'll be crying yourself to sleep. Why because he made you to worry about tomorrow The blessings that you have today Satan will make you Look at it and you're to say I hate the life that I have Satan is after your mind He wants to do everything that he can in his power To take your mind and shift it up for what you have and to put it on what you don't have yet Despising the things that God did give you How many people in the world would trade you your bodies of the health that you have and they're sick Laying in the hospital beds of God if you can only bless me With that health, I'll serve you forever Yet, sometimes we have our own bodies. We're like God. Why'd you make me like this guys? Like I've given you help Sometimes the house that we live in we're like God I want in a bigger house if people in terrible countries don't have a roof to sleep under and a praying for the blessings That you have it's like one preacher was crying to God's a God I've served you for so long and you promised you to buy me shoes I don't have money to buy me shoes and I was like, okay Go to the flea market and I'll find you a person that will buy you the shoes He goes to the flea market and he sees a person that's sitting on the on the on the street begging He has no legs and God's like see you're blessed Sometimes that's what Satan tries to do with our lives. He that tries to take our mind And he tries to cripple it because he knows that's the only power that we have that's the only Defense we have against Satan is our mind. It's not your mind. You can't toss money at Satan He'll leave He can't give him a Rolls Royce. He's like, okay. I can't do anything about it. No, it's it's your mind that he's after Such a press such a like I'm like, oh wow. This is just my mind. Yeah That's what it is when you see a man or a woman. It's not their appearance. It's not their muscle It's not their money It's how big and how strong is their mind because eventually how strong is your mind? That's what you will have around you. That's the Bible says in Proverbs 23 That whatever man think it's so see whatever is in your mind sooner or later. You will have that on the outside If in your mind you are sick You her body will catch up to you become sick if in your mind you are poor sooner or later Your finances will catch up to your mind. So say does not need to steal from you He just needs to simple to cripple your mind So Satan is after your power after your mind you know My dad for example, he's You know, he's a he's served God all his life has been a missionary in and out You know in Russian Ukraine travel even came here to America and he served God for for whole his life And it's like man Man is dedicated, you know God's gonna bless him and it came in time where one of his son begins to get on drugs And it's like, you know me watching from the side, it's you know, that hit him so hard and He was like coming praying and asking all the relatives and everyone and the family pray and it's like at that time I saw such a clear picture where Satan was attacking His mind to a point saying You lost your son your son is dead your son will never get out on drugs. That's it It's over and now I saw one of when he would come home and he would cry and he was like battle with this and it came To a point where he came to us and he said, you know what? I'm done with it all I'm leaving it to God. Whatever happens happens. I believe God is gonna rescue him But I'm not gonna even worry a bit about his salvation And it's like it's like I saw in his mind chains begin to break Nothing changed in the outside little of nothing but in his mind. I felt like chains broke with that worry What if it's gonna happen? What if he's gonna die? What if he's gonna get killed? What if he's gonna overdose all these things but in that mind where he said, I'm giving all to God I know God is in control Things in months begin to change Soon after that God will begin to put in arranged things in order Where today if you look at his life and how he was before you would see simple difference between black and white and I saw that when Satan begins to attack He can use those things that you care about the most to be able to cripple your mind to be able to think oh Tomorrow you're gonna die. So don't enjoy life today And you may be a person that is living Yet you are dead on the inside You may be a person that is healthy right now But you're so worried about tomorrow that you cannot enjoy the blessing that God has given you today Satan is after your mind Number two, I want you to write down is this that enemy wants to kill you with your own weapon Satan knows that anything that he has against you he cannot use but he wants to use your own weapon your own power To kill you what I mean by that By worrying the power that God has given us our mind He wants to use to inflict ourselves So we destroy ourselves That's what worry does Worry basically creates a future that never happened yet But yet it destroys us right now What if I fail in school? What if I'm not graduating? What if I lose my job when I have enough finances to feed my kids? What if what if what if and we build a future around our lives never happened yet? And it begins to destroy us and that's it is that's what Satan's main Strategy is to come after your mind He knows this is the only power that you have He knows that's the only strength and the weapon you have against Satan Yet he wants to use that power Against you to be able to destroy yourself and he has to nothing to do about it Jesus didn't say not to worry remember this But he said how to worry when he says do not worry. It's like okay. Don't think about tomorrow Come on. You have to think about tomorrow, right? It's like don't think about your job. All right Well, I have to wake up tomorrow, right? I have to plan my day. It's like Jesus. Come on What are you saying? Jesus did not say don't worry. Don't worry. No, he said how to worry Because you can take that same worry and defeat yourself or you can know how to put it in perspective So that's what Jesus was trying to tell the people that around it's like it's that I'm telling you Don't worry because even the Bible says that if you don't think for the future of your household You're worse than unbeliever So it's not that you don't have to think about your grades It's not that you don't have to think about your relationship. It's not that you don't have to think about your finances your marriage It's not that way, but it's how to think about it Not from the point of defeat That oh if I'm gonna get into the next relationship, you know, they're gonna cheat on me. They're gonna walk away No, it's to be able to think that God is gonna be the center of my relationship and God's gonna be the one to bring Us closer. It's not to think that my family is gonna fall apart, but me in my house will serve the Lord That's how to worry about it. It's not that oh tomorrow. I'm gonna get sick. Everybody's dying out of the sickness of my family I'm gonna die from the same sickness. No, it's how to worry. It's by his stripes. I am healed I mean sickness comes up. I will be healed from it. Come on put your hands together for Jesus if if I was your enemy if I was your enemy I Would make you Hate the blessings that God is giving you That's what Satan wants like you got to put yourself in in Satan's perspective, right? He wants to make you concentrate on the things that you don't have in order for you to hate the things That you do have how many guys like prayed for a car You got the car once you got the car is like God. I hate this guy these things be a junk anybody I mean you guys prayed for a blessing waited for the place for so long once you get the blessing It's like oh this sucks. I want something better, you know, I mean you guys had that I remember like I was going Earlier today about through my pictures when I was like I don't know and when I was still in high school and I saw pictures that I was Dreaming about a car that I actually currently have now. I literally before service I was like going through it and I was like my dream car and there was a BMW m5 and I was like oh I was like wow if I get it I would be so in love Today I barely drive it every time I look at it. I'm like I have to fill you up, man and It's a v10 so that thing freakin drinks gas If you don't turn off the car once you pump in gas, you'll never leave the gas station check engine comes on I'm like how dare you always piece of junk, you know The things that I dreamed about today I have and I'm like if I could sell you I would sell you in the heartbeats and not if you won't even regret it Because that's how that's how it is Satan wants to make you turn your mind What you don't have instead of the things that you do have That you despise your blessings that God has given you front today If Satan can't steal it from you If Satan can take that thing away from you He'll make you hate the things that you do have Because some of you how many you guys prayed for for a life to be free from from drugs from all these things and From addiction certain things and now God has given that life. You know like this life is boring Serving God is terrible. Make me go to church on Wednesdays. This is terrible Pastor always wants me to do home groups. This is a nonsense But when you were in drugs, you're like God if you saved me, I'll serve you forever Why because that's what Satan does He makes you to be able to see what you don't have and yet once you do have those things that God has given you You despise it you begin to hate it you begin to worry about oh, what of this? What of this what of this yet? We cripple our ability to think to act and to exercise faith in the present tense Somebody say devil's after my power Number three is Jesus did not tell us not to worry, but he said not to be distracted Not to be distracted in the verse 33 I want to read this scripture because after he says do not worry do not worry do not worry He said it three or four four or five times in verse 33 He says but seek first the kingdom of of God his righteousness and all these things will be given to you and He says Instead of looking here looking there. What if this what if that what if that he says concentrate your own your life You seeking first God's kingdom and Everything else that you do worry about. Oh, what if housing money's gonna come house business our relationship will come together to you It's not gonna make you sit in one day. I'm like God gave you a relationship. That's nice One day you're sitting there God gave you a car. That's nice. No What's you serve God? Things will be keen to come to you the mind that you had on how I'm gonna buy this car I'm gonna pay these bills will come alongside you as you seek and God's kingdom What is God's kingdom is relationship with God and serving people There's two things that Jesus said the two most important things that you should know love God and love people You know loving God is not only Wednesdays Not only Sundays, but also serving people through home groups through serving You know, you know doing cameras ushering kids church, whatever it is. It is those things seeking God's kingdom I cannot tell you how many times in my life and In my business my marriage and all these things that as other people dream of as I serve God God will begins to add those things in your life some people like oh, you're lucky. No, I'm not lucky I seek God's kingdom first. It's not by a mistake that those things get added to your life It's not by a mistake that God begins to bring your blessing on the side. Why because as you seek him God will begin to add things to your life The things that people built for years and to go to school and colleges and try so hard God will begin to add it to you and you're like, I don't know how it happens But God's like as you seek me Those things will become and it begin to be added to your life and then church That is the point where Jesus begins to say when he says do not worry. It's not that it's not possible Not to worry that the concern the things will come up But as you see God God will begin to bring people alongside you God will begin to bring favors where where you begin to be hired And you know, you don't need that degree and we've seen it happen even my my my sister-in-law's life I've seen it clearly. You know how she's been serving in church from from her young age and how certain managers were fighting For her to hire her for a certain position I mean, come on. That's unheard of Managers from different hospitals fighting between each other. I'm gonna hire her. No, I'm gonna hire her I'm gonna give her more money. No, I'm gonna give her my money. I'm like, please continue, you know Favor begins to go and they did, you know, even one time one manager said, you know You need for your degree to take this position, but you know, we're gonna hire you anyways We're gonna send you to college. We're gonna pay for your college and we're gonna act like you already have that degree But we're gonna hire you for that. I mean, that's God's favor That's not just to you happens by mistake But when you first seek God's kingdom those things will begin to be added to your life somebody say my mind Is my power? The last point I want to share with you is how to empower your mind right down right there down I just want to do practical step. How to empower your mind. There's gonna be three simple steps Watch what comes in in your mind Feed your mind and stretch your mind Very simple to very simple to to look and to understand Watch what comes in your mind Feed your mind and stretch your mind Some of us What comes into our mind is everything and anything garbage comes in we care Lyrics though. Oh, I hate my mother my father my brother. I hate my school. Hey my president everything. We're like, yeah beat is good I'll listen to it. No problem Sooner or later, we don't understand that our mind begins to be crippled But what we hear what we take in I mean ask literally ask my wife if I hear anything negative come out from anybody I get angry Like I get like I get mad because I know the negative things Cripples my mind makes me weak So anytime God begins to bring me an opportunity if my mind is not strong enough to receive that opportunity. I miss it. I Make sure that my mind begins to be fed by God's word relation with God's serving others because I know that's the only Power that I have against Satan That's the only power that I have against Saint's temptation only power I have against his scheme in my life You guys have to be careful of what comes in your mind Rumors come around we're like, oh, yeah, I also heard they did this Rumors come around like, oh, yeah, she did this too. Yeah Satan used that to cripple your mind Instead of being creative. You're poisoning your mind. It's like we don't see it But it's like when the person goes out to work out. It's like injecting poison into yourself Like I'm gonna be strong. How are you gonna be strong when you're infecting poison in your mind? That's what many people are like. They're surprised. Oh, I can't believe he did this I can't believe he shot her. Oh, yeah, he's been feeding poison feeding anger in his mind all the time And you're surprised he reacted like that you surprise they burst it out in anger You're surprised, you know, they they cheated you supplied all the things why because you've been feeding it your mind all the time I mean, I hate movies. I literally hate movies with the sad ending. I walk out. I'm like, I want my reef I get angry. I'm like pointless Because I'm like, I want a hero at the end, you know, I want somebody to win I want them to succeed and everybody died. I'm like the Avengers is the most depressing Depressing thing in my life that I ever saw wasted my money. I wanted to refund I wanted people to win I'm like, I don't want to fight my whole life and die at the end. What is this madness I know there's a second story. Whatever. I'm not gonna buy it Because for me, I'm so careful what goes into my mind I I literally if I see or I hear some people, you know, they say, oh I can't do this. I'm like We're not gonna be hanging around for too often We're not gonna talk why because I'm not going to be surrounding myself with people who are going to poison my mind It's so important for us. We see it as lightly, but That is your strength. That is your power that you have You're not going to be as strong as how much you can lift You're not going to be as strong in your marriage As much, you know, oh, we go out on dates. No, how much you feed your mind That's how strong your marriage is going to be how much you feed your mind That's how strong your ministry will be How much you feed your mind? That's how much God will begin to flow through you Is what comes into your mind? Second one is what you feed your mind If some of us is some of us will literally give our mind 10 percent of what we eat My God will be in a different place If we just take some time to to memorize God's word We will never be where we are now in our lives If it took some time to read books, you know and on how to treat each other in marriage or listen to your podcast Our marriage will be heaven on earth If we took some time to feed our mind on ministry How God uses to heal the sick and all that stuff you will be in a different place What you put into your mind, that's what you're gonna get The quality of your thoughts Will determine the quality of the life that you have if your life sucks right now It's all here. It's what you fed it Don't be surprised with tomorrow that you have because this is what you put in your mind today. That's what it is That's what it is and Jesus was so careful So careful to say be careful. Don't don't let the poison or what if what if what if what if because you're crippling today You're not able to have the creativity You're not able to have the peace of God to enjoy the children that you have other people are praying to have children Yet you have the children and you hate them So God, please kick him out of my house before I do So we have to understand God Give us that power And it's in our minds That's the only defense that you have Is your mind it's not your skill It's not your singing. It's not your looks It's not your friendships. We've seen it all come and go We've seen talent being uplifted and the sooner or later that character that they couldn't maintain Begin to cripple their life. Why because their mind was not strong enough to handle the blessings that God had come in their way When we worry When we begin to stress when we give Anxiety the fear we've used the same weapon that God has given us against our own self The last one I believe is so important is to stretch your mind You have to be around the people that stretch you You have to be around the people that challenge you if you are comfortable around the people that you are around You are not growing you're actually decaying You can never remain you can never remain in the same level remember that it's either you decay or you grow The people that you are around If if the books That you read if the pockets that you listen to if they do not stretch your mind You are growing dual and you are actually decaying Yeah, I tell you the truth. I don't like it when pastor lads sometimes Gets in my face is hey you got to do this. I'm like Like, you know, I love you so much But it challenges me to be better Certain people that that get in and begin to tell me things, you know that I'm like, I don't like but it stretches you It pushes you to grow it pushes you to go to the next level and God's like I'm trying to prepare you because you've been praying for so long for a blessing. I'm trying to prepare you to handle it Some of you guys are praying for a relationship. God give me this Wife, but you don't know some of that wife will come with attitude that you know how to candle You don't know that the man that you're gonna marry might have some anger issues in your need to learn how to be patient Because that blessing could come But if you're not ready to maintain it, you'll lose it. I've seen so many relationship and on small little issues why because they didn't have the character enough To handle the blessing Don't think it's gonna come like gold It's gonna have some dust around it that you're gonna have to wipe off You're gonna have to deal with certain things in order for you to enjoy it But that's how it is. That's how God wants to be able to prepare us God wants to begin to build our mind stretch our mind that when we go when we're praying for thousands local and millions globally God wants to give us a heart that can handle Thousands locally millions globally that means the issues that come with dealing with people the people saying bad things Negative things about you that you don't respond. Say oh, you guys are fake, you know But I don't know that you have the character enough not to respond to those haters Have character enough not to look at criticism and and be always responding to every negative comment on facebook Oh, I'm not like that. I never said that who cares power is our mind We have to build it it comes from seeking God's kingdom first And everything else will be added to you Talking about morning prayers. We're talking about Having home groups begin to attend home groups. Those are the things that seeking God's kingdom. I'm telling you I'm in a place right now in my life in ministry in marriage in business in health where other people took years to get And still are working towards it But God begins to add it to my life simply because See God's kingdom first and everything else gets added to your life You never ever lose by giving your God your full attention your full focus. You never lose The only thing you do is you just get blessings that God prepares you for a higher level in God Don't ever think that giving your life to God completely. You'll lose Don't ever think that Serve yourself completely out to God Say God my life is everything I'm giving it all to you. I believe that you're gonna take care of my finances I'm not gonna worry And I'm gonna go to college. I'm not gonna worry about this. I know those things will come as I serve you I know you'll bring the connections even Bryson when when he was talking about, you know, he he had a $50,000 tuition that was paid for For college paid for And you're gonna be spending your next eight years paying that $50,000 off God simply added to his life. Why seeking God's kingdom first And everything else begins to be added to you know, some people like oh, I'm gonna you know, I can't I can't be a church You know, it's just too much of my time. No, it's not how it is as you give God the more you give God The more blessings you begin to receive and the more blessings that you begin to enjoy As it comes with it. Amen church. 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